Dennis Quaid

American actor

Born

9 April 1954, Houston

Citizenship

United States

Occupation

film actor, actor, aircraft pilot, voice actor, television actor

Films here

3

Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many successful films, including Breaking Away (1979), Jaws 3-D (1983), Innerspace (1987), Great Balls of Fire! (1989), Dragonheart (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Frequency (2000), The Rookie (2002), The Alamo (2004), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), In Good Company (2004), Flight of the Phoenix (2004), Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), and Vantage Point (2008). In 2003, Quaid received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Far from Heaven (2002).

Quaid portrayed President Bill Clinton in the HBO film The Special Relationship (2010), earning nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He also portrayed Deputy U.S. Marshal Sherrill Lynn in the Paramount+ Western series Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023), and President Ronald Reagan in the biopic Reagan (2024).

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Bruce McGill
• Fran Ryan
• Pam Grier
• Wilford Brimley
• Stan Shaw
• Richard Fleischer
• Channing Tatum
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q200768 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.